Bode vs. Forebode — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Bode and Forebode
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Bode
Be a portent of a particular outcome
The 12 per cent interest rate bodes dark days ahead for retailers
Their argument did not bode well for the future
Forebode
(of a situation or occurrence) act as an advance warning of (something bad)
This lull foreboded some new assault upon him
Bode
To be an omen of
Heavy seas that boded trouble for small craft.
Forebode
To indicate the likelihood of; portend
Harsh words that foreboded estrangement.
Bode
(Archaic) To predict; foretell.
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Forebode
To have a premonition of (a future misfortune).
Bode
To be an omen; portend
The peace accord bodes well for the city under siege.
Forebode
To prophesy or predict.
Bode
A past tense of bide.
Forebode
To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).
Bode
(ambitransitive) To indicate by signs, as future events; to be an omen of; to portend or foretell.
Forebode
To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly.
Bode
To betoken or augur something good or bad that will happen in the future.
Forebode
(obsolete) prognostication; presage
Bode
An omen; a foreshadowing.
RQ:Chaucer Parlement of Foules
Forebode
To foretell.
Bode
A bid; an offer.
Forebode
To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly.
His heart forebodes a mystery.
Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Cæsar's death.
I have a sort of foreboding about him.
Bode
A herald; a messenger.
Forebode
To foretell; to presage; to augur.
If I forebode aright.
Bode
A stop; a halting; delay.
Forebode
Prognostication; presage.
Bode
To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow.
A raven that bodes nothing but mischief.
Good onset bodes good end.
Forebode
Make a prediction about; tell in advance;
Call the outcome of an election
Bode
To foreshow something; to augur.
Whatever nowThe omen proved, it boded well to you.
Bode
An omen; a foreshadowing.
The owl eke, that of death the bode bringeth.
Bode
A bid; an offer.
Bode
A messenger; a herald.
Bode
A stop; a halting; delay.
Bode
Abode.
There that night they bode.
Bode
Bid or bidden.
Bode
Indicate by signs;
These signs bode bad news
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